THE SAHAJA YOGI
AND THE DRUNKARD
a story about being tested
The
15 November 1980
difference between a human being and a
Truth is silent. It doesn’t speak. It just works.
Start getting the cool breeze in your hands and go into meditation, breeze-like.
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is the same as a human being and a drunk fellow.... I’ll give you a joke of a
drunkard:
There were two drunkards who were drunk. They went to a hotel. They
wanted to have a room for themselves. God knows what they wanted. They did
not know. So they went and told the clerk, “We would like to have two beds
with a room.”
So he didn’t understand, you see. “No, two rooms with a bed.” He said, “All
right, you want to have a room with two beds. All right.”
So he opened a room and said, “These are the beds for you.”
So fully clothed as they were, they slept in the same bed. One calls to
another. Says he, “There’s somebody in my bed!”
The other one says, “I too have someone in my bed.”
So the first one says, “What should we do?”
The second one says, “Let’s try to throw them out.”
And there was a big struggle and a lot of noise in the room.
The first one says, “I’ve got him out.”
The second one says, “But he has thrown me out.”
So the first one says, “All right, you can come and sleep with me,” because
he has thrown him out. So what to do?
This is what they are. This is the difference. So what’s the use of arguing
with them and getting angry, getting into tensions. I mean they are drunks.
If you see a drunkard, run with the speed of five hundred miles per hour.
That’s My principle. No use arguing with a madman or a drunkard. Maybe a
madman may be all right, but a drunkard, until three hours he won’t digest his
drinks, you see.
So that is what is the difference. They are drunks. They are drunk by power,
drunk by money, drunk by that. Something is there. And you are filled with the
light of God Almighty. That is what it is, the difference is.
If you understand the difference, you will realize that there is no use fighting
with these people. They are drunk. They are like that. If you talk to them, what
can you say? I mean they don’t understand you. They just don’t understand, so
forget it.
I will give you such tests and things by which you will come in contact with
them, see them and get out of it, without any harm being done to you. It’s necessary. You have to touch them. You have to go near them. You have to be with
them, but you are outside. I give such tests to people and that should work out.
I know you can. That’s why I give such tests only to people about whom I’m
sure that they’ll come out.
Photograph Captions, Credits and other Notes
Front cover: Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 12 May 2007, Serravalle Italy (Calin Chiroiu) Contents
pages photographs: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi in India Contents pages name: name number 581 from the Sri
Lalita Sahasranama Contents pages quote: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shri Mahakali Puja 1982 Pages 2 and
4: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 23 June 2007 Pages 9 and 12: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shri Adi Shakti Puja
2007 (Paul Anant) Pages 14 and 15: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shri Krishna Puja 2007 (Paul Anant) Page 16:
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Sahasrara Puja 2007 Pages 19, 21 and 24: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Page 25 quote:
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 10 October 1981 Page 26: the River Ganges at Gangotri India (Björn Kurt) Page 28:
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Montecatini Terme Italy, 28 October 1989 Page 30: Shri Mataji at a train station in
India Above quote: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 29 October 1979 Above image: a wordcloud representing the 2007
Shri Adi Shakti Puja talk (those words used the most appear the largest) Back cover photograph: the Baghirat River
(which becomes the River Ganges), before Gangotri India (Björn Kurt) Back cover quote: Shri Mataji Nirmala
Devi, 29 October 1979, Northampton UK (“If you have no idea of religion, then you cannot relate this knowledge
to that. Such a knowledge is absolutely useless. If you studied physics and if you have not known what is the science
of inside, you cannot understand the Kundalini w at all. If it cannot be related to the ultimate, it is a lost knowledge.
Like the tributaries of the river, all the tributaries must fall into t